In the First Person is an online index to over 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English, offering keyword searching of more than 700,000 full-text pages from some 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.
Many of the items in this index are available in the database British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries.